{"id":156086,"date":"2025-09-20T07:03:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T07:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/156086\/"},"modified":"2025-09-20T07:03:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T07:03:07","slug":"ricky-hatton-the-life-and-times-of-a-boxing-legend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/156086\/","title":{"rendered":"Ricky Hatton: The life and times of a boxing legend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The summer of 2005 is widely regarded as the pinnacle of Ricky Hatton&#8217;s career and the moment he cemented his reputation among the world&#8217;s elite.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">On 5 June of that year he went into a contest against Kostya Tszyu with a 38-0 record and holding the WBU light welterweight belt but still Hatton was seen as the underdog.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Boxing critics gave him no chance against Tszyu who was considered one of the top pound-for-pound boxers in the world.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">So it came as a surprise to everyone, except his most loyal supporters, when he defeated the Australian in an 11-round fight at the Manchester Arena in front of 22,000 fans.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He finally had his hands on a world title: The International Boxing Federation and The Ring junior welterweight championship.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;From 2001 to 2005 Ricky Hatton changed the face of British boxing,&#8221; said boxing commentator Steve Bunce.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He had 12 sell-outs at the Manchester Arena and made that his home, or citadel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;As he has admitted, he wasn&#8217;t the best British boxer in history but he was, without a doubt, the most popular.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The summer of 2005 is widely regarded as the pinnacle of Ricky Hatton&#8217;s career and the moment he&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":156087,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-156086","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-boxing","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156086\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}